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Bomb attacks kill more than 70 Shi'ites across Iraq
ReutersBAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 70 people were killed in a series of car bombings and suicide attacks targeting Shi'ite Muslims across Iraq on Monday, police and medics said, extending the worst sectarian violence since U.S. troops withdrew in December...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Nouri Maliki, Bombings, Basra (Iraq), Religion and Belief
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Tensions over Syria convulse Lebanese city again, 5 killed
ReutersTRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - Five people have been killed and about 50 wounded in two days of fighting in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, security sources said on Monday, a spillover of violence from the civil war in Syria. Rocket-propelled...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Religion and Belief, Bashar Assad, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Islam
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State Dept. report notes increase in anti-Semitism; special envoy named
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Ira Forman, former CEO of the National...Tags: John Kerry, Russia, Washington, DC, Religion and Belief, Judaism
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Dozens killed in wave of bombings in Iraq
A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said The attacks, some of which hit market places...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Bombings, Emergency Incidents, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Al-Qaeda
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WRAPUP 1-Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle-activists
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria - activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans AMMAN, May 20 (Reuters) -...Tags: Russia, European Union, Armed Conflicts, Bashar Assad, Iran
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Britain denies bail to radical cleric who faces deportation
ReutersBy Estelle Shirbon LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada could be deported to Jordan to face trial on terrorism charges within weeks, a British court heard on Monday, and it ruled he should remain in jail in the meantime to...Tags: Trials, International Law, United Kingdom, Deportation, Extradition
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Somali government says guns won't decide disputed port's fate
Reuters* Mogadishu in talks with rival factions to defuse row * Clans vying for control of lucrative Kismayu in south * Government: return to civil war, anarchy not an option By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU, May 20 (Reuters) - Somalia's new government said on...Tags: Mogadishu (Somalia), Wars and Interventions, Somalia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Kenya
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Car bombs in Iraq kill at least 65 people
BAGHDAD -- Car bombs around Iraq killed at least 65 people Monday as the country's worst wave of violence since U.S. troops withdrew a year and a half ago continued. The attacks that occurred by busy commercial streets in Shiite and Sunni areas followed...
Tags: Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Wars and Interventions, Nouri Maliki, Bombings, Basra (Iraq)
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WRAPUP 2-Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle-activists
Reuters* Fiercest fighting involving Hezbollah in Syria - activists * Israel threatens more strikes to keep arms from Hezbollah * Assad says planned peace talks won't stop "terrorists" (Adds funerals, Syrian TV) By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans...Tags: Bashar Assad, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Terrorism, Rebellions
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Hezbollah suffers big losses in Syria battle: activists
ReutersAMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday....Tags: Bashar Assad, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, Terrorism, Rebellions
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John F. Brinson: U.S. fighting world war against a political ideology
World War I was everybody versus Germany and Austria (1914-18). World War II was everybody versus Germany, Italy and Japan (1939-45.) World War III was the Cold War, with everybody versus the Soviet communist empire (1947-91). World War IV began in 1979...
Tags: Germany, World War I (1914-1918), Religion and Belief, Philosophy, Judaism
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Nigeria offers amnesty to insurgents who surrender
ReutersMAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast. In their...Tags: European Union, Armed Conflicts, Civil Rights, Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan
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